Reference Resources

References & Reference Resources
These can resources and databases can get very expensive for small enterprise libraries. Below are some sites and services that are available for little or no charge.

Name of Resources	Web address	Description of Resources
LIRN (Library & Information Resources Nwtwork).	http://www.lirn.net/	The LIRN® virtual library provides students with millions of peer-reviewed and full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, podcasts, audio, and video resources to support their academic studies from Gale Cengage, ProQuest, EBSCO, CREDO Reference, eLibrary, and more, covering topics for General Education, Business, and Medical programs. The current core collection subscription runs about $7 per student (user). Addtional upgrades that would include medical resources and others, prices start at about about an additional $2.50 per additional user.
The Florida Electronic Library	http://www.flelibrary.org/	Using your Public Library card (barcode number) to a Florida public library, you can gain access to this resource. the Florida Electronic Library conatins many Gale resources from biography to business to medical. Although some databases are aimed toward K-12 students.
Google Scholar	http://scholar.google.com/	Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Free Gale Databases	http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/index.htm	This link will direct you to Gale databases (at no charge) dedicated to Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Women's History Month and poetry.
Free EBSCOhost Databases	http://www.ebscohost.com/customerSuccess/default.php?id=7	Here EBSCOhost offers a few databases at no charge. these databases include: European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750, LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts), Teacher Reference Center (TRC), and GreenFILE™
The Free Library from Farlex	http://www.thefreelibrary.com/	The Free Library has offered free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Entertainment, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily.